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(By Harold Milks)
Nanking, Nov. 17. It was authoritatively learned that with the present situation, there, is no intention of closing down the Peiping Exe-
CHINA MAIL
No. 33518.
ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS
HONG KONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1946.
DRAFT CONSTITUTION FOR GERMANY
Democratic Republic Of States
TODAY'S
cutive Headquarters, POLISH
though later develop
ments might necessitate ARMY
this!
This indicates the possibility" that, despite General Chon ER- lal's departure for Yenan, pro- bably on Monday, and reitera- ! tons by. the Communists that
ended.
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Warsaw, Nov. 17. Training its fighting
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PALESTINE PRECAUTIONS:
Jerusalem, Nov. 17. Reliable military Bourcea said today that British troops in Palestine would probably be increased by the end of The year to include four full divisions of combat soldiers.
The move is believed to be taken because a decision, on the Jewish-Arað. qucation the Holy Land may be made after Janumy 1 and added forces may be necessary implement that decision- Associated Press.
Admiral's
The promised "draft constitution for the German REVISED Dismissal
democratic republic," adopted at an extra- ordinary meeting of the Socialist Unity Party was published tonight in the executives,
organ of the Party, the "Neues Deutschland."
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BRITISH NOTE TO RUMANIA
(By Reuters Diplomatic Correspondent)
"London, Nov. 16.
The British Minister in Bucharest, Mr. Adrian Holmian, has been instructed to deliver a new British note to the Rumanian Government protesting against the preparations now being made for next Tuesday's General Elections, it was learned on good authority today.
The British note is believed to express regret that reports from Rumanin still show that full freedom is not being ac- corded to the Opposition par».
tics.
The noto 'maintains that Britain has every right to press for fulfilment of assurances- given by the Rumanian Gov. ernment at the time of its re- cogaition last spring-that civil liberties would be guaranteed. The first British protest over
election the Rumanian
cam-
of October and was followed on Nov, 2 by a Rumanian reply saying the comment from Bri- taia was interference-with- Rumanian domestic affairs.
The latest British step is not thought to be directly-as- sociated with the recent appeal of the Romanian Opposition parties to the "Big Three" Britain, the United States and check the Soviet Union-to abuses in the conduct of the
US. Note
election campaign.
WREATHS REMOVED
Paris, Nev. 17. Three young Frenchman who were: found removing urcaths from the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Paris early today told the police- man she caught them in the act that they had merely wished to remove the wreaths loid on the tomb
bu “Anti- French parties."
The policeman noticed them at the foot of the tomb at ant, and pussled by their farsit, hid behind a pillar of the Arc de Triomphe to #a10 the watch. When he "visitors" removing wreaths he attempted to round them un but two escaped. The other three worn taken to th Polies atationRouter.
The draft defines the future of Germany as a de-eign trade regulations mocratic republic formed of states (laender). were announced tonight the opening of the National men mostly along Soviet Assembly гледая
All authority would be exercised by the peo by the Premier, Dr. T. V. The dismissal of Ad- national split, there is still the Russian lines, new Po-
ple through elected administrations. There Soong, who said they miral Thierry D'Argen-paign was delivered at the end
effective immedi-lieu, the French High possibility that the negotiations land is building an effici-
would be only one form of citizenship, with were have only recessed rather than ent and compact postwar
Commissioner for Indo- equal rights and equal obligations for all. ately. Tnsistent Comungalst reports army-about-one-fourth-
Public-service--would-be-open-to-all-citizens Slating the time had now come China, was forecast to
to inaugurate a period of selec-day by the newspaper according to their abilities. that the Government is readying the size of that in the
tive. importation, Premier Paris Matin." for an attack against the Party's field when the war in
The preamble states: "This position under law as married Seong declared the present licens- indicated that capital. Yenan,
newspaper alleges that is given constitution
to the women. Free university educating system, instiluted on March 1
when Admiral d'Argenlleu was that phase of the civil war will Europe ended in 1945. be the deciding point of the Marshal Michal Rola-Zymier- German people in the knowledge tion and grants would be avail this year, will be expanded internal struggle. Observers ski, Minister of National
that the sity of the nation and able to children of the poarer cover all imports which will be received yesterday by Mr. Georges divided into appropriate cate-Bidault, the French Premier and Reds, anxious to fence, says the Army now has social progress, and the safe classes.
M. Marius Houtet, the Minister avoid the loss of Yenan, are only 16 infantry divisions and guarding peme and friend.
Other provisions of the draft gories.
for the Colonies, he was criticised "The importation necessities for still holding the door open for three cavalry regiments.
tion pamphlets and posters, that further negotiations, to trade and motorised units make up the ship with other peoples, can be constitution which the Socialist
in repressing the revolt in Indo-
their candidates were not acconi- concession in the peace talks to rest of the new Army. which achieved only through a demo- Unity Party put forward were: raw materials and other legisti- for having acted too energetically cratic people's, republie.” - No state church, but freedome requirements of domestic China upon which the Viet Nam
A new American, note hased the same time on the Govern (Indo-Chinese). Government of The proposed
as the Government halt, any Nationalist campaign now numbers about 155,000 men.
constitution of creed and conscience and of Produce will be granted first con-
sideration. The Marshal said that Rus consists of 100 articles.
Dr. Ho Chi-minh "has designs." also been sent to Bucharest to ment radio The practice of religion to be pro-
bloc candidates, and that against Yenan.
regis "Arrangements will be made to There
indication, sian Army officers had played whole is divided into five parts, tecled by the
It was added that the decision day, rojecting the contention tration lats had been padded. republic:
was Constantin Techari-Georgescu, however, that such a campaign major role in helping to build headed, firstly. "Bases of State children's religious
facilitate the importation of ma- would probably not be carried out that their previous note adherence
38-year-old Communist Minister had started or been planned the new Polish Army and train-Order." secondly, "Basic Rights up to the age of fourteen to be thinery and capital goods. The until the new Government is in-interference."
ing its officers and men. In the and Obligations of Citizens," decided by the parents, over be discouraged," said the Pre- importation of non-essentials will
Georgescu, of the Interior, reported that a M. Theohari stalled. Associated Press.
last year, he said, 14,000 Rus thirdly, "Parliament of Repub fourteen every child should demier-Reuter.
The three men designated by the Rumanian Minister of the In total of 7,986,784 persons had re- sinn officers (including. 40
"Paria Matin" as probable succes-terior, forecast today that Tues-gistered compared with 3,700,000 Generals) had been released lic" fourthly, "Government of cide for itself..
Republic and fifthly, "Legis
sors to the admiral were, the day's clections, would prove a registered vaters in the 1028 elee- that some tions. Women are voting for the from service with Polish troops.
lation".
former Minister of Communica- close contest, and "We are united with the Red
tions and Minister of Food, M. heads "ware bound Army hy
and an alliance
Paul Ramadier, M. Rene Mayer | broken.”". brotherhood-in-arms," he said,
phewar set-up,
Officers and the inviolable freedom Corps is no longer a caste which of the individuak subject ouly wants to rule. It is a Demo to the law. Citizens would have |cratic Corps."
the right to live anywhere. In Germany, or to migrate. They would be free to form unions long as or associations "as these are not illegal and do not serve Fascist or
militarist aims." Everyone would have the right to work, and the republic would be bliged to maintain any citizen for whom it was unable to provide work
PERUVIAN EARTHQUAKE
Lina, Nov. 17. Official figures still incom- plete show that 800 persone died and 500 were injured in The November 10 earthquake
on the Andes slopes.
At Teget 25,000 persons were affected. Armp planen ere dropping foodstuffs, clothing and medicine to the rezidenta,—Asbociated Prean.
Prices Soar In Nanking
(By Martin Chen)
+
No Fascism
Citizena over 18 are to have
Foreign
adding that, contrary to the ty of men and women before the wind the by simple moment Ministers
Conscription
The Polish Army recruitment system now is based on a system of 24 months obligatory mili- tary service, starting with men 18 years of age. Men who are the sole support of a family and workers indispensable in State industries (such as coal miners) and teachers and Poles clergymen, are exempt. whose religious beliefs forbid them to fight are assigned to non-combat units.
the right to vote and those, over- 21 would be eligible for elec- The draft asserts the equation. Parliamentary decisions vote. "as a rule". Parliament would be dissolved by a vote of more than half of its members or by plebiscité!
Agree On Trieste
New York, Nov. 17-
to be first time. -Associated Press.
BOMB EXPLOSION
-----Stockholm, Nev, 17.
A bomb exploded on Satur day night in Central Station square, breaking windows in
and General Rene, d'Larminat, All the previous elections.it commander of the French Over- Rumania have been, bloody and
eas Territories,
though the Government would When Admiral d'Argentle flew endeavour to prevent all vio from Saigon to Paris on Thursday it was reported that a deadlock Policy
had arisen between the French The Prime Minister would
and the Viet Nam delegations determine the lines of Govern-
At one of the most successful meeting at Hanoi in Indo-China. ment policy according to prin- ciples agreed upon by Parliamectings yet held, the Council over the measures to be taken as ment, and within these lines of Foreign Ministers last night titles between France and the each Minister would act inde- reached agreement on the more Viet Nam on October 30.
d'Argenlieu, forner pendently in his own depart-important issues affecting the
nature of Trieste,
soldier and scholar, left inent.
At the end of the meeting the shelter of a monastery in Justice
they had failed to agree on only Paris, in 1930 to Oght for France. cne point of the draft proposal Vatican radio reported last Thurs submitted by the French re day that he plans to return to his presentative defining the Trieste monastery by January next.- Government functions:
would be dispensed The draft constitution would by professional and Isy judges, transfer "all natural resources and elected lay judges would and economically useful sources, assist in all courts-Reuter. of power to the ownership of the republic or states." Private 100 hectares estates of over framework of land reforms without compensation."
would be divided "within the Nanking, Nov. 17.
sur-
Blackmailers' Rendezvous
This concerned the appoint- ment and dismissal of the Police Chief by the Government. The French proposal contained the phrase: "After consulta- tion with the Government coun-
a result of the cessation of hos-
Admiral
sallor,
Reuter.
BRITAIN AND TRIESTE
nearby hotels, banks and. stores and cupaing injurica to
Оперетво several perBONS, 'was arrested as suspect..
Associated Press.
ObsessedBoxes With Films
London, Nov; 17. Arrested with two tenguinea tickets for a Royal Command Sim show, and said to have been led into crime by his obsession with films and lm stars, Roy William
ot Cummings (17), film extra,
Wembley, Caritonavenue East, was placed on probation for two years at Marlborough-street.
Mr. J. B.-Sandbach, K.C., im- posed a special condition that he lenee, M. Georgescu said, "you must not work in or have asso.. rannot change the mentality of clation with anyone connected a country in 18 months."-Reu- with the film industry,
ter.
.......Election Fervor
Bucharest, Nov. 17. rice
Election fervor, mounted to a
that
Rola-Zymierski said that
Cummings admitted stealing Poland had a standing army of
two cameras, value £140, from 260,000 men when the Germans
the Duke-street flat of Mr. Mau-
The effects
Conley, his friend's father, of the feared attacked in 1939, but that he national split are manifested had 65,000 men under his direct
Private enterprises suitable
New York, Nov. 16. now pitch of intensity here, yes-and obtaining by false pretencen On a wave of price increases in command when Germany
for nationalisation would be Nanking, whcpe populnes ap: rendered.
Britain's reply to the enquiry derday as millions of Ramanians 103 from Reginald G., Morgan, to public An unknown rendez-ci," but M. Molatov, the Soviet parently want to play safe by
Det.-Sergt. Massey said "At present," he told foreign liable to transfer hoarding foodstuffs and other newsmen, "the figure of U.S.S.P. ownership by law. Enterprises
to be on the advice of the ci of Foreign Ministers on the Tuesday to name a new Govern
subject
Cummings had mixed with highly of direct negotia- ment. Canton - Kowloon Government council" the
· and between daily necessities and purchasing officers in our Army does not which belonged to war crime vous, somewhere along foreign Commissar, wanted this addressed by Italy to the Coun- prepared to go to the polls on of Harley-road, Greenford.
Members of the Opposition paid im workers and had tried otherwise there are only a tionsslava concerning exceed 4 per cent of the Polish nals or active Nazis would be
Trieste parties, too, have protested that to keep up with their rate of nationaliser without compensa Railway line in the vi- These precautionary mues-officers corps."
few minor points to be referred and the frontier problems, has their pre-election meetings have spending. cinity of the border town the Foreign Ministers and been delivered in Rome, it was been broken up by Government So obsessed was he with films Curea by
The Marshal said that General tion. Nanking citizens against the possible full dress Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. Army The Unmarried Mother of Shumchun has, so the these depend on the drafting officially learned here today bloc supporters, that insufficient that he had stowed away to get paper was allowed for their clesta. Hollywood. The boat went to civil war awept food prices to Chief of Staff, had promised to
South · Africa, however, and he an unprecedently high level and end American Army lecturers with men for equal work would the "China Mail" was changes.-Reuter,
was stranded for three months carried black market quotations to Polish military academies.te of foreign currencies
before his parents could bring Associated Press. to an all-time record.
him back.
foreign currencies.
The United States dollar led: the upward sweep in the foreign exchange in the black market by riaing to CN$4,650 (in Shanghai i hit CN$5,000).] Even at this rate the demand
Was strong.
Demand for Hong Kong
Women's rights to equal pay
recognised. Unmarried informed yesterday, mothers would have the same been designated as the place where "protection money" demanded of local
goldsmiths and others is to be handed
UNO Budget A "Very Modest One"
Lake Success, Nov. 16.
dollars, which used to get com- Mr. Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United
aratively scant attention from speculators, is now increasing rapidly.
Retail, shops are enjoying boom as careful housewives have launched an all-cüt buying campaign in fear of an acute;} shortage of commodities.
The price of coal has jumped
Nations told the Administrative and Budge- tary Committee of the United Nations General Assembly here today that he considered his budget "of less than £61,000,000 to be a very modest one for the central organisation of the United Nations."
| CN$350,000- owing to the opalaries.
very.
prouch of cold weather and un Directives he had received
ho
maintaining the l
stabid political conditions--As from the General Assembly Martial Law In
dociated Press,
seid, showed that the Assembly intended to offer members of the
.over.
Recipients of the blackmail letters have been requested to arrange for hoe or
more of their fakis to board the Canton morning express and to keep 'n sharp look-out on the left hand gide of the track for a specified sign. Immediately this sign in seen, the "protection money," carefully wrapped up. is to be. thrown from the train.
Quandary
Reuter.
NONE THERE EXCEPT FOR SOME?
London, Nov. 17:
Moscow radio commentator Mihall Mikhailov to-
VATICAN DENIAL
Vatican City, Nov. 17. Vatican circles todây 'cate;. gorially denied Moscow radio reports that the Pope would hold special Christmas con- sistory in which Archbishop
mate of Yugoslavia (noie
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Restitution
Cummings's father was greatly distressed, by his son's acts and |had 'made; full restitution to all
concerned."
The magistrate said that Cum- mings must curb his lover ween-
entirely from films, Alm stars and film studios.
day said that "there is not a single Soviet sol-laysia Stepince, the Pring vanity and must be cut or dier outside this country, except the occupa-serving a sentence of -tion troops in former enemy countries and a certain number in Poland to safeguard com- munications of these occupation troops.
He did not give the number of troops serving be-
yond Soviet borders.
years forced labour for allag- ed orimes against the State) would be elevated to the rank of cardinal,
It was pointed out that if such a consis tors had been contemplated it would have been announced a week ago. Beutor.
Dead Man
one hand, they have been ad Churchill had suggested earlier of reports from persons who said To Come
Whon Mr. Cummings said his 'son had never had a proper thrashing, Mr. Sandbach replied. "Probably much better, if he had had one," adding, "But it is past the time for beating "now"
THE WEATHER Theros little change in the anticyclone which covers China and the neighbouring seas. AĄ, deep, depression is moving E to the N of Hokkaido, The typhoon centred in about 16 appears to be centre
N. 134 dert E. prob moving slowly
Replying to the criticisms of M. | responsible for
Stalin sald last month in reply over Swedish territories." He said Mr. Lie said that most of t Fedor Gusev, the Soviet delegate, organisation in any financial za~ |
sect alone," Mr. Lie concluded Up to Saturday last, threate a question submitted to him that the Swedish Army discovers to CN$460,000 ition from members received
modest Reuter.
tening letters were still being that, Russia had 60 divisions foed that "the sensational rockets received by goldsmiths and the castera Erope and the number were nothing more than meteors. laiter are in a quandary as to would be reduced to 10 within During fast, simmer, the what they should do. On the two months, swedish Army received hundreds rised by the Police not to pay up, in the House of Coramens that they had observed speeding ob÷ ns any knuckling under to pre-Russia had 200 divisions in eastern jects with fiery talls streaking Bent threats might possibly lend Europe.
through the sky. In a few in- Mithallov declared today that stances the objects landed on
After four months of invest!- Henry W. Hagemann has shore fine, cool. memory of what has happened its troops from Norway, Borg-gation, the Swedish military au decided, after all, to return elsewhere atill fresh in their halm (Danish Island), Iran, thorities said last month they had from the dead.
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All 11 abroad a Western Air very high percentage of the bly of workers inside factories. Britain Asks American Aid in budget, Mr. Lie said, but it would Circles close to the Ministry of a Hong Kong post mark. At American troops in Iceland, the tial phenomena but that, radar not to reopen the matter.
equipment had detected some ob Now, however, his step-lines plane which crashed in be andcairable to allow this con- Interior said that these measures the lower left hand corner of Philippines and Chinh, dition to confitine riots and in the envelope, the name of the Those Rockets feet which cannot be the mother, who was also his aunt, a storm on November 13 Inil Demands For Nationall-time intention any years of were to prevent riche Chen sender is, given as Wing Lee The commentator then attack, phenomena of nature, in the pre-has-died-leaving an estate af sgainst a mountain near Les the United Nations rould be for the Iranian Majlis Par Company The letter itself is ed the American and British prese ducts of Imagination norbere about $15,000 and to share in Angeles are dead, said a radio were macement), due to take place from signed in the name of the for publishing "screaming head-terred to as Swadiah airplanes It Hagemann must come back to message today from the rescue. T-Home & Local Sports News, etc to feel that Erfantily. Déc. Etol-Router,
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